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1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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text file |
| Note |
Selection of revised papers from an April 2009 conference of the same name held at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Britain and the Muslim world / Gerald MacLean -- British private traders in the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Om Prakash -- Outrageous rites : early modern English encounters with Levantine religious rituals / Eva Johanna Holmberg -- "You will say they are Persian but let them be changed" : Robert and Teresa Sherley's embassy to the court of James / Kate Arthur -- Elihu Yale, the East India Company, and the problem with Madras / Rajani Sudan -- Anglo-Ottoman enlightenment? : Thoroughbreds and the public sphere / Donna Landry -- Turning Turk, turning heretic : Joseph Pitts of Exeter and the early enlightenment, 1640-1740 / Humberto Garcia -- Performance and performing in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters from Istanbul, 1716-18 / Georgina Lock -- Alternatives to Orientalism? : Mary Wortley Montagu and her "Turkish" son" / Bernadette Andrea -- Muslim world in British fictions of the nineteenth century / Robert Irwin -- Owen Jones and the Islamic world / Abraham Thomas -- First Englishwoman on the Hajj : Lady Evelyn Cobbold in 1933 / William Facey -- Dr Sayyid Mutwalli ad-Darsh's fatwas for Muslims in Britain : Voice of official Islam? / Gerard Wiegers -- Manifesto for a new translation of the Qur'an / Ziad Elmarsafy -- Al Hadatha : race and identity in Palestinian early literature of resistance / Ahmed Masoud -- Peering around the "velvet curtain of culture" : Employment and housing of Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Muslim immigrants, 1960s-1990s / Sarah Hackett -- A duty to belong? : Muslim women of Cardiff as a case study / Marta Warat -- Interfaith dialogue and religious literacy prevent Christian-Muslim violence in the UK and US / Vincent Biondo -- Framing Muslims in British television drama : "realism" or stereotypes? / Peter Morey -- Muslims in the media / Tim Llewellyn. |
| Summary |
Based on papers presented at an international three-day conference, sponsored by the British Academy and held at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter in April 2009, this collection of essays provides a comprehensive and accessible synthesis of the most advanced specialist and scholarly knowledge to date concerning historical perspectives on relations between Britain and the Muslim World. Ranging from the early-modern period to the present day, the essays coll ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Muslims in literature -- Congresses.
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Muslims in literature. |
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Muslims in popular culture -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
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Muslims in popular culture. |
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Great Britain. |
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Islamic countries -- Congresses.
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International relations. |
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Islamic countries. |
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Islamic countries -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte. |
| Genre/Form |
Kongress -- Exeter -- 2009.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
MacLean, Gerald M., 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786613141712 |
| ISBN |
9781443825900 (hardback) |
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1443825905 (hardback) |
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9781443825924 (electronic book) |
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1443825921 (electronic book) |
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128314171X |
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9781283141710 |
| Standard No. |
9786613141712 |
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